International Workshop "Semantic Processing of Spatial Data" (GEOPRO2003) November 4-5, 2003 Mexico City, Mexico http://geopro.cic.ipn.mx/ Workshop Organizers: Serguei Levachkine - Centre for Computing Research, Mexico Miguel Torres - Centre for Computing Research, Mexico Workshop Co-Organizers: Juan Luis Diaz de Leon – Centre for Computing Research, Mexico Max Egenhofer – National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the University of Maine, USA Karl Tombre – LORIA, France Angel Felicisimo – Extremadura University, Spain Rodolfo Suarez – Mexican Petroleum Institute/PIMAYC, Mexico Victor Alexandrov – SPIIRAS, Russia Ursula Benz – Definiens Imaging / eCognition, Germany Eugene Bodansky – Environmental System Research Institute, USA Jean Serra – Ecole des Mines de Paris/Centre de Morphologie Mathematique, France Michael Gould – Universitat Jaume I, Spain Jesus Angulo – Ecole des Mines de Paris/Centre de Morphologie Mathematique, France Anne Ruas – IGN, France Jesus Munoz – Real Jardin Botanico de Madrid, CSIC, Spain The International Workshop on Semantic Processing of Spatial Data will be held November 4-5, 2003, at the Centre for Computing Research in Mexico City. This workshop provides an opportunity for prominent specialists, researchers, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to share their latest research and applications in Semantic Processing of Spatial Data. GEOPRO 2003 will consist, but is not limited, of following main topics: Automatic Interpretation of Raster-Scanned Cartographic Maps Automatic Map Generalization Automatic Geo-Image Interpretation Intelligent GIS Tools GIS Applications for Developed Countries PROCEEDINGS Prior to the workshop: e-Proceedings (CD) and "Research on Computing Science" (hard copy/Editorial CIC-IPN) - both are with ISBN. After the workshop: Selected papers will be published in a volume Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag. GEOPRO 2003 will be held in conjunction with the following conferences: 12th International Conference on Computing (CIC 2003) 8th Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2003) IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submissions due: August 30, 2003 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2003 Registrations and camera-ready manuscripts due: October 15, 2003